Under our present system of taxation the wages of the worker are taken to run the city by the tax on the home being put in your rent. The increase in land-values that would run the city goes to the land speculator. Example and Proof:

Suppose the people build a twenty million dollar subway. The land increases twenty million dollars in value; the increase would pay for the subway, but it goes to the land-speculator and your wages are taken to pay for the subway by a tax on the home which is put in your rent.

– from The Single Tax Review, March-April, 1909

And 100 years later, we’re still financing subways from revenue sources other than Land Value Taxation. Slow learners, aren’t we?